Speaker Topics

Capturing Lived Experience through Photovoice

Behavioral Health and Occupational Therapy

Recovery and Well-Being

Interests & Expertise

Dr. Stoffel’s research focuses on the lived experience of disability and recovery for persons with mental illness and substance use disorders, parenting a child with autism, transitioning from military to civilian life as a university student, and engagement in psychosocial clubhouses. Use of motivational interviewing and coping strategies to promote change in substance use and other behavioral changes reflects ongoing work with colleagues from the Center for Applied Behavioral Health Research at UWM.

Currently, Dr. Stoffel is involved in a 5 year study funded by the Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program (2013-2017) titled “DryHootch iPeer: A Social & Technology Support Program for Veteran Mental Health” with Dr. Haertlein Sells from UWM and colleagues from the Medical College of Wisconsin, DryHootch, Milwaukee VA Medical Center, Marquette University and Mental Health America of Wisconsin.

In addition, Dr. Stoffel is known for her involvement in leadership development training and has facilitated leadership training programs for AOTA’s Emerging Leadership Development Program and their Middle Manager Leadership Institute since the programs were launched in 2009 and 2010.

Dr. Stoffel is President of the American Occupational Therapy Association (2013-2016), the national professional association for occupational therapy in the United States representing more than 140,000 practitioners, students and researchers. Her service also extends to the American Occupational Therapy Foundation, Mental Health America of Wisconsin, the Scientific Advisory Panel for the Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation, and the editorial board of Occupational Therapy in Mental Health: A Journal of Psychosocial Practice and Research.